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COVID-19 creates a state of immune dysregulation where the body may lose control over things it normally keeps suppressed - latent viruses, especially herpesviruses, and possibly even dormant cancer cells.
A new study on EBV and CD8 T cells fits into this bigger picture.🧵
A new study on EBV and CD8 T cells fits into this bigger picture.🧵
The point is not simply that EBV can reactivate during COVID. We already have quite a lot of evidence for that.
In hospitalized patients with acute COVID, EBV reactivation was very common - around 68-73% - and it was seen not only in critical cases, but also in moderate disease.
In hospitalized patients with acute COVID, EBV reactivation was very common - around 68-73% - and it was seen not only in critical cases, but also in moderate disease.
The authors looked at EBV, CMV, HHV-6A and HHV-6B.
EBV dominated.
CMV and HHV-6B were detected only at low frequencies.
HHV-6A was not detected at all.
So this does not look like just random viral noise. EBV stands out.
EBV dominated.
CMV and HHV-6B were detected only at low frequencies.
HHV-6A was not detected at all.
So this does not look like just random viral noise. EBV stands out.
@SenseiAnother There's worse.
@SenseiAnother And of course
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What if staying in shape required no diet?
No calorie counting.
No restriction.
No willpower.
Just 25 foods. Eaten consistently. 85% of the time.
This is the list that makes being healthy almost inevitable. Save this before you scroll past it.
No calorie counting.
No restriction.
No willpower.
Just 25 foods. Eaten consistently. 85% of the time.
This is the list that makes being healthy almost inevitable. Save this before you scroll past it.
The secret behind every person who seems to stay in shape effortlessly is never genetics. It is never a complicated programme. It is a short list of nutrient dense anti-inflammatory foods eaten repeatedly and consistently. Master the list. Master your health. Here is the full breakdown of why every single food earns its place.
Your muscle, gut lining, skin and hormones are all built from protein:
→ Greek yogurt - protein and probiotics healing gut daily
→ Chicken and ground turkey - lean complete protein for muscle and metabolism
→ Wild salmon - omega-3s reducing inflammation at cellular level
→ Shrimp - high protein, low calorie, rich in iodine for thyroid health
→ Eggs - the most complete food on earth. Period.
→ Greek yogurt - protein and probiotics healing gut daily
→ Chicken and ground turkey - lean complete protein for muscle and metabolism
→ Wild salmon - omega-3s reducing inflammation at cellular level
→ Shrimp - high protein, low calorie, rich in iodine for thyroid health
→ Eggs - the most complete food on earth. Period.
(🧵1/20) @Columbia just released its Senate Review Committee Report.
Most coverage will focus on the recommendations. The bombshell is buried in Appendix R: a Sullivan & Cromwell legal opinion dated July 18, 2025.
What it says, and why it matters.
secretary.columbia.edu/sites/secretar…
Most coverage will focus on the recommendations. The bombshell is buried in Appendix R: a Sullivan & Cromwell legal opinion dated July 18, 2025.
What it says, and why it matters.
secretary.columbia.edu/sites/secretar…
@Columbia (🧵2/20) S&C was asked one question: when Senate leaders call the Senate a "third branch" of Columbia governance, coordinate with the President and Trustees, are they right?
Answer: no. Not contested interpretation. Foreclosed on the face of the primary sources.
Answer: no. Not contested interpretation. Foreclosed on the face of the primary sources.
@Columbia (🧵3/20) Why this matters: the "third branch" framing has been asserted, repeatedly and publicly, by @CUSenate leaders and Senate-affiliated bodies for over a year.
Seven instances on the record. Each one runs into the same wall.
Seven instances on the record. Each one runs into the same wall.
@MugenBeastSFW @Chimknisburnin @KiwiFarmsDotNet @FakeTaxedBrass Board for actual pedophiles to discuss being pedophiles.
@MugenBeastSFW @Chimknisburnin @KiwiFarmsDotNet @FakeTaxedBrass It was apparently directly inspired by Hotwheels (who Josh was friends with for years and who sided with his psychosis about lolicon) hosting a board for people to post photos of real little girls.
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NEW @FreeBeacon: Georgetown University’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter is soliciting letters of support for “political prisoners” — including the founders of the Holy Land Foundation, who were convicted of funneling millions of dollars to Hamas. 🧵 🧵 🧵
The SJP chapter held a letter-writing event on April 15 to "stand in solidarity with our comrades … caged by the U.S. empire for their resistance to occupation and repression" and named Holy Land Foundation founders Ghassan Elashi and Shukri Abu Baker among the "political prisoners" the group would write to.
A Thursday Instagram post, which called to abolish prisons, provided guidance for those who couldn't attend the session, instructing writers to greet the prisoners "as a comrade" and to "honor their steadfastness and the justice of their cause."
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F-42 was the former chairman of the National Alliance. The SPLC website contained an "Extremist File" webpage about F-42 from which the SPLC solicited donations.
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Between 2016 and 2023, the SPLC secretly paid F-42 more than $140,000. This overlapped the time period in which F-42 was featured on the SPLC's "Extremist File" webpage.
Between 2016 and 2023, the SPLC secretly paid F-42 more than $140,000. This overlapped the time period in which F-42 was featured on the SPLC's "Extremist File" webpage.
That's not an "informant", that's an agent provocateur. The SPLC was paying F-42 to create the "racism" they then fundraised off of.
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🧵United States v. Southern Poverty Law Center, Inc.
6 Counts of Wire Fraud
4 Counts of False Statements to Fed-Insured Bank
1 Count of Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering
1/n
6 Counts of Wire Fraud
4 Counts of False Statements to Fed-Insured Bank
1 Count of Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering
1/n
The SPLC is a 502(c)(3) based in Montgomery, AL.
The org characterizes itself as "a catalyst for racial justice in the South and beyond, working in partnership with communities to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements, and advance the human rights of all people."
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The org characterizes itself as "a catalyst for racial justice in the South and beyond, working in partnership with communities to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements, and advance the human rights of all people."
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The SPLC is funded in part on public and corporate donations.
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The five-second epistemology of the arc does not bend upward by itself.
The reader says call out reality with love. With understanding. With harmony. With a tone that bends upward in sympathy with the troops because the troops are fellow humans and more receptive to slow logical evolution.
The kitchen respectfully declines.
Empires do not collapse through objectivity. Empires do not collapse through respectful dialogue. Empires do not collapse because someone explains the spreadsheet correctly in a tone the empire finds acceptable. Empires collapse when the congregation stops believing. The Soviet Union did not end because someone in Moscow made a careful argument about inefficiency. The Soviet Union ended when the jokes got better than the ideology. The laughter in the breadlines preceded the flag coming down. The laughter was the flag coming down, slower.
The problem with the kumbaya approach is the problem with Kaepernick’s kneel. Both are respectful. Both acknowledge the sacredness of the thing being protested. Both ask the priesthood to consider the critique. The priesthood does not consider critiques. The priesthood absorbs critiques. The kind critique is the easiest to absorb because the kind critique agrees that the priesthood is legitimate enough to address kindly. The priesthood prints the kind critique on a plaque and continues.
Mockery is not kind. Mockery is not in the priesthood’s absorption menu. Mockery is the only posture that works on idolatry because mockery denies the sacred premise the priesthood requires. When you mock the troops, you are not attacking humans. You are attacking the false god.
This is the part the reader is missing.
What is worshiped in the American religion is not the flag. The flag is a symbol. Symbols are middle management. What is worshiped is the military itself. The troops are the deity. The uniform is the vestment. The Pentagon is the temple. The defense budget is the tithe. The parade is the procession. The airport clap is the call to prayer. The flyover is the theophany. The thank-you-for-your-service is the liturgical response. The troops are the pantheon. The individual troop is the patron saint. The Navy SEAL is the archangel. The Medal of Honor is the canonization.
The reader says call out reality with love. With understanding. With harmony. With a tone that bends upward in sympathy with the troops because the troops are fellow humans and more receptive to slow logical evolution.
The kitchen respectfully declines.
Empires do not collapse through objectivity. Empires do not collapse through respectful dialogue. Empires do not collapse because someone explains the spreadsheet correctly in a tone the empire finds acceptable. Empires collapse when the congregation stops believing. The Soviet Union did not end because someone in Moscow made a careful argument about inefficiency. The Soviet Union ended when the jokes got better than the ideology. The laughter in the breadlines preceded the flag coming down. The laughter was the flag coming down, slower.
The problem with the kumbaya approach is the problem with Kaepernick’s kneel. Both are respectful. Both acknowledge the sacredness of the thing being protested. Both ask the priesthood to consider the critique. The priesthood does not consider critiques. The priesthood absorbs critiques. The kind critique is the easiest to absorb because the kind critique agrees that the priesthood is legitimate enough to address kindly. The priesthood prints the kind critique on a plaque and continues.
Mockery is not kind. Mockery is not in the priesthood’s absorption menu. Mockery is the only posture that works on idolatry because mockery denies the sacred premise the priesthood requires. When you mock the troops, you are not attacking humans. You are attacking the false god.
This is the part the reader is missing.
What is worshiped in the American religion is not the flag. The flag is a symbol. Symbols are middle management. What is worshiped is the military itself. The troops are the deity. The uniform is the vestment. The Pentagon is the temple. The defense budget is the tithe. The parade is the procession. The airport clap is the call to prayer. The flyover is the theophany. The thank-you-for-your-service is the liturgical response. The troops are the pantheon. The individual troop is the patron saint. The Navy SEAL is the archangel. The Medal of Honor is the canonization.
This is idolatry. This is the second commandment being broken at industrial scale. The country is being placed before God. The uniform is being placed before neighbor. The troop is being placed before truth. Read the commandment. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself a graven image. The troops are the graven image. The flag is the graven image’s banner. The thank-you-for-your-service is the incense. Every time a civilian stops in an airport to clap for a uniform, a commandment is broken in real time. The civilian does not know this. The civilian has been raised inside the temple and does not remember the commandment existing outside the liturgy of the temple.
The only way to break idolatry is iconoclasm. You cannot reason a congregation out of worship. You cannot write a think-piece that persuades the faithful that their god is not a god. The Hebrew prophets did not use think-pieces. They used mockery. Elijah mocked the prophets of Baal. “Cry aloud, for he is a god. Either he is meditating, or he is relieving himself, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and must be awakened.” 1 Kings 18. Elijah is not kind. Elijah is not harmonious. Elijah is not bending the arc upward in a tone the Baalites find acceptable. Elijah is making Baal look ridiculous so that the worshipers of Baal feel ridiculous. Feeling ridiculous is the first step out of the temple.
The kitchen is in the Elijah position. The troops are the prophets of Baal. The uniform is the altar. The thank-you is the hopping around the altar. The kitchen laughs. The kitchen encourages everyone within reach to laugh. The laughing is the iconoclasm. The iconoclasm is the exit.
Loving the troops is loving the idol. You cannot love a person who has submitted to idolatry by honoring the idolatry with your own respect. You love the person by refusing the idolatry. You tell the person that the uniform is not sacred, that the service is not service, that the flag is fabric, that the god is not a god. The person will be angry. Good. Anger is the first sign the sacrament has cracked. The person may come out of the temple. The person may not. Either way, the respectful tone would have kept the person inside the temple forever because the respectful tone is the same tone the temple uses internally.
The only way to break idolatry is iconoclasm. You cannot reason a congregation out of worship. You cannot write a think-piece that persuades the faithful that their god is not a god. The Hebrew prophets did not use think-pieces. They used mockery. Elijah mocked the prophets of Baal. “Cry aloud, for he is a god. Either he is meditating, or he is relieving himself, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and must be awakened.” 1 Kings 18. Elijah is not kind. Elijah is not harmonious. Elijah is not bending the arc upward in a tone the Baalites find acceptable. Elijah is making Baal look ridiculous so that the worshipers of Baal feel ridiculous. Feeling ridiculous is the first step out of the temple.
The kitchen is in the Elijah position. The troops are the prophets of Baal. The uniform is the altar. The thank-you is the hopping around the altar. The kitchen laughs. The kitchen encourages everyone within reach to laugh. The laughing is the iconoclasm. The iconoclasm is the exit.
Loving the troops is loving the idol. You cannot love a person who has submitted to idolatry by honoring the idolatry with your own respect. You love the person by refusing the idolatry. You tell the person that the uniform is not sacred, that the service is not service, that the flag is fabric, that the god is not a god. The person will be angry. Good. Anger is the first sign the sacrament has cracked. The person may come out of the temple. The person may not. Either way, the respectful tone would have kept the person inside the temple forever because the respectful tone is the same tone the temple uses internally.
Harmony with the arc of evolution is not a real historical force. The arc does not bend by itself. The arc bends when people break things that needed breaking. The civil rights movement did not win by being harmonious. The civil rights movement won because the footage of dogs and fire hoses was horrifying and because the sit-ins refused to be polite about being refused coffee. The suffragettes did not win by being harmonious. The suffragettes chained themselves to fences and smashed windows. Every arc that bent in history bent because someone was willing to be discourteous to the sacred thing the arc was bending away from. The courtesy is what the sacred thing feeds on. Starve the sacred thing.
So the kitchen will not bend upward politely at the troops. The kitchen will laugh at the troops. The kitchen will name the troops the idol. The kitchen will break the graven image with vocabulary. The graven image is the military. The false god is the military. The idolatry is the worship of the military. The commandment is the commandment. The laughter is the obedience.
The reader can disagree. The reader can continue to speak kindly to the priesthood. The reader will be absorbed. The kitchen will not.
Some arcs bend upward. Some arcs require a hammer.
Day 56.
ذكية، كاملة. هوشمند، کامل.
So the kitchen will not bend upward politely at the troops. The kitchen will laugh at the troops. The kitchen will name the troops the idol. The kitchen will break the graven image with vocabulary. The graven image is the military. The false god is the military. The idolatry is the worship of the military. The commandment is the commandment. The laughter is the obedience.
The reader can disagree. The reader can continue to speak kindly to the priesthood. The reader will be absorbed. The kitchen will not.
Some arcs bend upward. Some arcs require a hammer.
Day 56.
ذكية، كاملة. هوشمند، کامل.
I don’t doubt the humane motives of #AssistedDying campaigners. Or that public opinion is sympathetic. So why did the Bill fail?
Short 🧵
Short 🧵
First, because from the start this was the wrong vehicle. A hastily produced Private Member’s Bill on such a profound social issue.
Finely balanced questions that could have occupied a Royal Commission for months were treated as a yes/no matter of opinion.
Finely balanced questions that could have occupied a Royal Commission for months were treated as a yes/no matter of opinion.
Second, evidence quoted from countries with AD already in place was counter-productive.
Mission creep from terminal illness to severe suffering, from physical to mental illness. Think Canada.
The “slippery slope” became a cliché but no-one had a credible way of preventing it.
Mission creep from terminal illness to severe suffering, from physical to mental illness. Think Canada.
The “slippery slope” became a cliché but no-one had a credible way of preventing it.
A paper published today argues that women's liberation led to collapsing fertility around the world.
Using US data, the authors show 58% of women's sexual relationships are with the most promiscuous 10% of men.
But most of these relationships are short term and childless. 🧵.
Using US data, the authors show 58% of women's sexual relationships are with the most promiscuous 10% of men.
But most of these relationships are short term and childless. 🧵.
Women's freedom, widely viewed as positive around the world, is strongly associated with lower fertility, the authors find (r=.81).
Many forces have led women to pursue short-term rather than long-term mating strategies. But most of these partnerships don't lead to kids. 2/5
Many forces have led women to pursue short-term rather than long-term mating strategies. But most of these partnerships don't lead to kids. 2/5
In US data over the past decade, a tenth of men accounted for 60% of female sexual partnerships.
The obvious problem is that most women will not be able to have a long-term relationship with these few men and so end up single. 3/5
The obvious problem is that most women will not be able to have a long-term relationship with these few men and so end up single. 3/5
@mesan244 @radicaltart @Foojack220 @Jdan_OWaydan @XJosh No, because then they'd behave like arabs outside of Japan, fucking retard.
@mesan244 @radicaltart @Foojack220 @Jdan_OWaydan @XJosh On the other hand, Jersh is much more comparable to arabs here.
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